[What music are you all into?]

I generally like most music except for R&B and rap music but my favourite band of all time has been for quite some time now The Mars Volta. They're hard to put into just one genre but the best I could describe it would be progressive rock with a bit of psychedelic salsa and latin thrown in.

 

Not to mention I may have a huge crush on the lead singer

 

 

I have seen the Mars Volta - they are very very good live.

 

I like most music, but my fav genre is probably indie or rock

[Musicals]

My fav of all time is Blood Brothers - I see it at least once a year and never get bored of it!

 

I also like:

 

Rocky Horror

Chicago (film, not stage version as I didn't enjoy it when I saw it last yr!)

Hairspray

Singing in the Rain

Bugsy Malone

 

I love them all!

[Worst ever film from a book?]

I thought it was awful too! And it stopped in the wrong place (for convenience I guess).

 

I don't think they're making any more of them - I thought they'd been axed?

 

 

Didn't know that they have been axed!! you have made my day

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

I am at work and almost gagged on my apple looking at the open shirt pic - hubba hubba!! Not going to be able to concentrate this afternoon now

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

Yeah, its weird how the same person can be gorgeous in 2 totally different ways -mmmmmm!!

[Worst ever film from a book?]

I really didn't like the Golden Compass film - I was really looking forward to watching it and felt really let down. Although, I did like Nicole Kidman in it. Not too bothered if I see the next film!

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

I thought he was good as Cedric although he doesn't have the same attraction as when he is playing Edward!

[100 books]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible -

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 1984 - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy-

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens-

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker-

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante-

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -

80 Possession - AS Byatt -

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

Wow - 36 more than I thought I would have got!

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

I didn't like Jacob until he was hot in the movie, but I've always loved vampires so all the Cullen boys were winrars from the start.

 

Any of the Cullen men would suit me just fine!!! mmmmmm

 

I agree about RP - never liked him before, but the film totally changed my mind!!

[Grown-up and Still Reading Young Adult Books?]

I like reading YA books sometimes - nice light reading after a hard day at work!! I'm 26.

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

I wouldn't have described RP as hot - until I watched the film and now I totally fancy him!!! I like his portrayal of Edward although they are some cringeworthy moments ie the biology scheme and the "you're like my own personal brand of heroin" bit *shudder*

 

Jasper is kinda cute although he does look constipated. He must have taken a lot of pro-plus to make his eyes look that wide. When I was watching the film, I just wanted to give him a hug as he looked petrified.

 

I like the look of Alice in the film, although we do not really see a lot of her acting skills. Alice is one of my fav characters, so I hope that she is played well in the future films. I agree with the comments that she did seem a bit false when she spoke to Emma. I think that this may have been because her charater wasn't explored in the film.

 

Not keen on Kristen as Bella. She looks the part, but her voice grated a little. Plus, she looked (for most of the film), that she wasn't really bothered by Edward.

 

I like Rosalie, Emmett, Esme and Carlise, but we didn't see much of them in the film. I am looking forward to seeing how they are played in the future as we see a lot more from these characters. I especially like Rosalie and Emmett in Breaking Dawn.

[Most overrated?]

Life of Pi - althought most people who read it thought it was brilliant.

Atonement was a little slow to start off with and I had to make myself finish it and I didn't think that Catcher in the Rye was brilliant. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it when it was written?!

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

I liked the fact that

Jake imprinted with Nessie as it was nice to know that he wouldn't end up alone

However, I just think that Bella and Edward

having a child was a bit unnecessary

although this was really the main storyline in the book. I found that the odd bits of dialogue that Nessie had were a bit weird

because she was growing so fast she wasn't really speaking as a child if that makes sense? But then in other chapters, she was very childlike

I am going to read the books again in and maybe I will enjoy Breaking Dawn more the second time.

[Northern Lights - If read What daemon would you have?]

I would like a loyal dog - or maybe a wolf!

[The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood]

I read this book for my Eng Lit A level and did an essay comparing this with 1984. I really loved the book and often re-read it. I still find it a real page turner even though I have read it loads of times.

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

I actually thought the Renesmee bits were the worst parts of the book - one she appeared, the book went downhill, fast, for me. I also really, really HATED the name and cringed every time I saw it on the page.

 

I really didn't like that character. So much so that I didn't care what happened to her!

[TWILIGHT Saga by Stephenie Meyer]

Twilight and Eclipse were my favourites.

I spent about 400 pages in New Moon waiting for Edward to come back. Not really sure about breaking dawn - I think that it all went a bit weird! In the earlier books, before Bella became immortal, the desciptions used to describe her relationship with Edward were really magical (probably not the right word!). In breaking dawn, they just seemed a bit stale if that makes sense to anyone?! I would have also liked it if more was made of it when Bella first became immortal - we had been waiting for 3 books for it to happen and it ended up being a bit anti-climatic. I know the whole book was really based arounf the

 

 

Don't get me wrong, I liked all 4 books, but I only loved 3 of the books.....